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Not knowing much (um, anything) about third level domains or subdomains or canonicals (which name I now quite like), I googled around and found this most EXCELLENT site and got quite overwhelmed with the discussion on this site.
Could people please review my understanding of what is going on
1. As far as I can tell, these 3 URLS effectively point to exactly the same page (http*//www.example.com/privacy/menu.htm). Correct?
2. How come the Google algorithm has not detected this?
3. From my reading of the posts on this forum, cross linking is bad, setting up pages with near identical content is bad (because Google figures that there is no advantage to the end user in duplicated results), but is "aliasing" (in the sense of having multiple domains pointing to the one URL, no redirections or tricks) bad?
It seems to me that there is a legitimate argument in the situation where there might be common semantic differences in the way people phrase/think about a topic (yes, I know that keywords can address this, but I am thinking in terms of URL memorability/recognizability on return search). eg example.example.com and example.example.com
Am I correct in saying that if these two URL's point to pages with very different content on the one site, then there will be no problem with Google, but if they point to exactly the same page, say an entry page, then there could well be?
[edited by: pageoneresults at 9:51 am (utc) on Jan. 28, 2004]
[edit reason] Removed Specifics - Please Refer to TOS [/edit]
